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Re:I resigned from Anthropic today on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @03:35AM (#49622702)
Nuclear weapons, climate change.... The AI doom hyperbole is unhinged.
Piracy is theft.

Copyright infringement isn't piracy. Nor theft.

Re:What Is Entropy? on Monday July 22, 2024 @04:10PM (#41039265)
This answer is as confident as it's wrong and full of gibberish.

Entropy is not a "distribution”, it's a functional that maps a probability distribution to a scalar value, i.e. a single number.

It's the mean log-probability of a distribution.

It's an elementary statistical concept, independent of physical concepts like “pressure”, “potential”, and so on.

Re:10% of Cubans have left Cuba in the last year on Sunday July 21, 2024 @02:06AM (#41022800)
This is very misleading.

From Wikipedia:

”The United States has threatened to stop financial aid to other countries if they trade non-food items with Cuba.”

"While the US measures against Cuba do not amount to a blockade in a technical or formal sense, their cumulative effect is to put an economic stranglehold on the island, which not only prevents the United States intercourse but also effectively blocks commerce with other states, their citizens and companies."

”Despite the existence of the embargo, Cuba can, and does, conduct international trade with many countries, including many US allies; however, US-based companies, and companies that do business with the US, which trade in Cuba do so at the risk of US sanctions.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_embargo_against_...

Re:Julia and Mojo (Modular) Mandelbrot Benchmark on Saturday September 09, 2023 @02:47AM (#37442870)
How can Julia exceed C/C++ performance?
Python libraries cannot be statically linked.

This has nothing to do with promoting graph-tool, but not promoting disinformation, as you have been doing.

This is shameful FUD against LGPL based on blatant nonsense.

If you do this in a public forum, I can only imagine what you promote to your customers.

Lost a lot of respect for Graphistry during this interchange.

It seems entirely nonsensical not to allow LGPL for library code, since it does not add any restrictions compared to BSD/MIT/etc. You should advise your users better in this regard, since they seem to not understand how these licenses work.
graph-tool is LGPL, which means it can be used as a library even in proprietary code. So I don't know how it could not be allowed for your users.

The python API is almost identical to 'EasyGraph'. I'm curious why you consider it less approachable.

graph-tool visualization is killer. Not an after-thought to check a box. You can do animations, visualize interactively (move node positions with the mouse), generate publication-quality SVG/PNG/PDF seamlessly, integrate with other applications using GTK, cairo, etc.

It has been around since 2006, and is maintained by an academic group.

This seems rather redundant given that graph-tool exists: https://graph-tool.skewed.de

It does visualization fairly well — not to mention that the entire back-end is in C++ with templates + OpenMP for performance.